Improvement in baling plastering-hair



-to snit his customer.

UNITED STATES PATENT EEIoEn /VENDELL It. KING, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BALING PLASTERlNG-HAIR.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 152,560, dated June 30, 1874; application filed August 25, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, TENDELL R. KING, ot' Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain Improvements in Baled Plastering-Hair, of which the following is a specification:

It is found that the wants of the trade in plastering-hair require it to be compressed tor transportation in packages of from three to live bushels. This amount of hair forms a package of a good size to conveniently handle, weighing from twenty to forty pounds. The trade unit for the article of plastering hair is always the bushel. It is sold by the bushel or by a multiple thereof. Heretofore this hair has been packed in a mass of a certain number of bushels baled together, varying in amount as the order required, so that when received the retail dealer was compelled to parcel out the same and weigh it This is a disagreeable and diiiieult thing to do, as the hair is dirty and matted together, and after it is once removed from the case, into which it has been compressed by a baling-press, is bulky and not easy to reduce again to a convenient package. For this convenience of the trade I purpose to form the hair in small bundles of one bushel each, and unite several bundles into a bale of a convenient size for transportation. I lirst place a bushel ot hair into a paper sack loosely, or only so far packed as may be readily donc by hand. Several of' these one-bushel packages are then placed side by side in a baling-prcss. I use for this purpose the baliug-press heretofore patented to me. They are thus compressed forcibly together, so that the bale produced will be a cotnpact lirm bale, occupying only about onefifth ofthe original bulk. The paper bags,

which still envelop the individual bushels of the bale, keep said bushels separate, and serve at the same time to protect the hair.

The bale, after being compressed, istied in the usual way, and is then in shape for transportation without further covering, although it may be desirable, if the bale is to be sent a long distance, to envelop it in a stout sacking cover. Hair baled thus maybe separated by the retail dealer into bushel packages, each of which remains compressed into a small size, and is iu convenient condition to handle.

In the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this specification, Figure l is a perspective view ot' one of the bundles, containing a bushel, before being baled and compressed. Fig. 2 is a view of a bale formed of several ot' said bundles compressed and secured, ready i'or transportation. Fig. 3 is a view of one of the bushel bundles as it a-ppears after being removed from the bale.

In the said drawing, A represents -the bushel bundles incased in paper bags or equivalent material. B is the bale, formed of several of said bushel bundles, compressed side lby side in a press, and secured in some proper way, as by the cords C.

In baling the hair it may be weighed when it is placed in the paper bags, to ascertain when the bushel is complete. The weight of a bushel of hair varies according to the laws and customs of various localities, but always is reducible to pounds, being measured by weightand not by quantity.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- As an article of manufacture, the bale B ot" plasterers7 hair, consisting of several bun dles, A, containing a bushel each by weight, inclosed or ineased in paper bags or similar material, and united, compressed, and secured to form a package, substantially as specified.

'VENDELL It. KING. iVitnesses:

HEINRICH F. BRUNS, JOHN NV. MUNDAY. 

